40 Empowering Cheryl Strayed Quotes That Will Help You Channel Your Inner Badass

“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never,…”

— Cornelia Funke, amazon.com

“The job of a good dog was ultimately to be with them, remaining by their sides no matter what course their lives might take. All I could do now was offer him comfort, the assurance that as he left this life he was not alone but rather was tended by the dog who loved him more than anything in the who…”

— W. Bruce Cameron, amazon.com

“You have been the last dream of my soul.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“Friendship is far more delicate than love.”

— Hester Lynch Piozzi, amazon.com

“Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, goodreads.com

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”

— Andy Rooney, brainyquote.com

“Because I love you truly, because you love me, too. My very greatest happiness is sharing life with you.”

— Minna Thomas Antrim, amazon.com

“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”

— David Levithan, amazon.com

“Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love… but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.”

— Mandy Hale, amazon.com

“A true friend is one you can go extended periods without seeing or talking to, yet the moment that you are back in touch, it's like no time has passed at all.”

— Ellie Wade, amazon.com

“When you love a girl who’s gone through trauma, you’re saying that you see the worth in helping her bandage the wounds. You’re saying that you see the worth someone else tried to bury.”

— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com

“Honey, when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes. I feel like a person for a moment of my life.”

— Hozier, open.spotify.com

“When your happiness is someone else’s happiness, that is love.”

— Lana Del Rey, goodreads.com

“A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.”

— Jaron Lanier, amazon.com

“There are two big days in any love story: the day you meet the girl of your dreams and the day you marry her.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, amazon.com

“I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”

— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com

“It's not like love at first sight really. It's more like gravity moves. When you see her suddenly it's not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. and nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her...You become whatever she needs you be, whether that's a protector, or a lover…”

— Stephenie Meyer, amazon.com

“When you love someone, really love someone, their happiness is your happiness.”

— Sabina Alexis, anewmode.com

“Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.”

— Sue Townsend, amazon.com

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were ar…”

— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com

“One day you're gonna open your heart. And it isn't gonna be to make me happy. It'll be for you. Because love is gonna bring you joy.”

— Greg Kinnear, Steve Miller, amazon.com

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

— Mother Teresa, amazon.com

“We’re all a little weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

— Dr. Seuss, reddit.com

“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”

— Westley, amazon.com

“Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don’t give up on true love.”

— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.com

“The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other.”

— Russell Brand, amazon.com

“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

— Robert Fulghum, amazon.com

“For me there is one measure of true love: you can insult the other.”

— Slavoj Žižek, lacan.com